The Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center , typically shortened to the Tax Policy Center ( TPC ), is a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington D.C. , United States. A joint venture of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution , it aims to provide independent analyses of current and longer-term tax issues, and to communicate its analyses to the public and to policymakers. TPC combines national specialists in tax, expenditure, budget policy, and microsimulation modeling to concentrate on five overarching areas of tax policy: fair, simple and efficient taxation, social policy in the tax code, business tax reform, long-term implications of tax and budget choices, and state tax issues.
8-675: Tracy Gordon became as the Robert C. Pozen Director of the Tax Policy Center in March 2022, after serving as Acting Director from January 2021. She succeeded Mark Mazur , who was director from 2017 to 2021. Economist William G. Gale is co-director of the Center alongside Gordon. Len Burman preceded him from 2013 to 2017 and Donald Marron was director from 2010 to 2013. Rosanne Altshuler served as director from 2009 to 2010. Gene Steuerle
16-546: A tax accountant for General Motors before spending four years teaching public finance at Carnegie Mellon University . Later, he entered government, working first as a staff member on the U.S. Congress ' Joint Committee on Taxation and, later, in several middle management positions at the White House and the U.S. Department of Energy . He eventually moved to the Internal Revenue Service where he
24-702: The Ford Foundation , the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , and the Rockefeller Foundation . Mark Mazur Mark J. Mazur is an American economist who formerly served as Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy in the U.S. Department of the Treasury . Mark Mazur received a Bachelor of Arts in financial administration from Michigan State University and earned a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University . Mazur early worked as
32-478: The 2001-2006 tax cuts, the alternative minimum tax, the impact of tax provisions on low-income families, and tax incentives for education. An extensive collection of tables provides estimates of the impact of current taxes as well as the implications of proposals to change tax law. TPC representatives have testified before the United States Congress regarding tax and health care reforms. TaxVox,
40-480: The TPC blog, discusses current tax and budget issues. The Tax Policy Briefing Book is an on-line collection of short articles that explain a range of tax issues. Entries offer background information, describe key elements of the tax system, propose changes to improve the tax system, and provide information on state and local tax policy. The center has also collected various data tables in "Tax Facts" which cover aspects of
48-493: The U.S. tax system, ranging from tax rates and revenues collected to changes over time in state and local tax collections. TPC's State and Local Finance Data Query System (SLF-DQS) provides tools with which users can create their own tables related to state and local finances based on data from the Census of Governments State and Local Finance series. TPC is funded by individuals, corporations, trade groups, and foundations including
56-403: Was appointed to the senior-level position of director of research, analysis, and statistics of income. In 2009 Mazur was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Analysis. He was named Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy in 2011, being confirmed to the post by the U.S. Senate the following year. In 2017, Mazur left the U.S. government to accept a position as director of
64-619: Was the founding director from 2002 to 2008. Bill Gale , Arjay and Frances Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy at the Brookings Institution, has served as Co-Director since its founding. The center's TaxVox blog is led by Howard Gleckman. TPC publications examine the impacts of a variety of tax issues. A 2012 report outlined the then-presidential candidates' tax proposals and analyzed their distributional and revenue impacts. Other studies have examined
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